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From: starrfie@nova.la.asu.edu (Sumner Starrfield)
Subject: Hubble Service Mission
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 21:14:34 -0700 (MST)
Sarah Keegan August 19, 1993
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
202/358-1547
George Diller
Kennedy Space Center, Florida
407/867-2468
Jim Elliott
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301/286-6256
KSC Release No. 103-93
FLIGHT HARDWARE FOR HUBBLE FIRST SERVICING MISSION
NOW ARRIVING AT KSC
Flight hardware which will fly aboard the Space Shuttle
Endeavour for use on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) first
servicing mission has begun arriving at the Kennedy Space Center.
The Wide Field/Planetary Camera II (WFPC II) arrived today at
Hangar AE, a NASA Spacecraft Checkout Facility on Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station.
During the next two weeks 17 trucks will be transferring the
flight hardware for HST servicing and associated support hardware
from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. to the
Kennedy Space Center. The instruments have been in a clean room
at Goddard for the last several months undergoing integration and
testing.
In addition to WFPC II, other primary components arriving
over the next two weeks include the Corrective Optics Space
Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR), two solar panels, the
Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph redundancy kit, rate gyro
sensor and electronic control units and two magnetometers.
The Space Support Equipment (SSE) arrived at KSC by barge
Aug. 11 and is now in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility
being prepared for launch. The units of the SSE include the
Orbital Replacement Unit Carrier which is a Spacelab maintenance
and repair pallet dedicated to HST activities; the Solar Array
Carrier which will hold the replacement solar panels, and the
Flight Support Structure which will hold and orient the
43-foot-long, 14-foot diameter HST during its repair by the
astronauts. Some of the SSE will house the delicate Hubble
corrective optics inside Endeavour's payload bay during the
mission.
Mission STS-61 is a planned 11-day flight with seven crew
members featuring five spacewalks and is entirely dedicated to
the servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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